A bond-reduction hearing for accused murder-for-hire plotter Mark Sievers is scheduled for next week.

Representatives for Sievers will appear before Judge Bruce Kyle at the Lee County Justice Center on April 21 to formally ask for his $4.4 million bond to be reduced to $250,000. Sievers was arrested in February and faces a second-degree murder charge.

Two other men, Jimmy Rodgers and Curtis Wright, were also arrested in connection with the death of Sievers' wife, Teresa, last June.

Wright took a plea deal in exchange for a 25-year sentence and a mandate that he cooperate in the case against Sievers.

Wright and Sievers are at the Lee County Jail. Rodgers is in custody in Collier County.